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  • adjective colloquial Fake.

Etymologies

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fake +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Also, on the brilliant lock job: I spied the exact same "fakey" in progress at the train station a couple months ago.

    BSNYC Friday Non-Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • Before we met the triplets, meaning the Barbaderos, we witnessed a kind of fakey young and raw New York street posse who did a well-choreographed and slightly raunchy dance around the cars accompanied by unconscionably loud dance-club music.

    Meeting the Chevrolet triplets 2007

  • Before we met the triplets, meaning the Barbaderos, we witnessed a kind of fakey young and raw New York street posse who did a well-choreographed and slightly raunchy dance around the cars accompanied by unconscionably loud dance-club music.

    Meeting the Chevrolet triplets 2007

  • * Entertainingly written, clearly illustrated, lots of Marvel-style subplots and carrying-on...it feels like a 1960s Marvel book, without any kind of fakey "retro" stylizing.

    Archive 2004-12-19 2004

  • * Entertainingly written, clearly illustrated, lots of Marvel-style subplots and carrying-on...it feels like a 1960s Marvel book, without any kind of fakey "retro" stylizing.

    Archive 2004-12-19 2004

  • Memorize ‘em and you’ll not only come off as a pro, but also have the added benefit of taking out all of those fakey dramatic pauses that actors do when trying remember their cues.

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 588 2009

  • She gleefully calls attention to Hickabee's mistep with a fakey little sympathy grunt then goes on to rub it in.

    Palin: 'My heart goes out to Huckabee' 2009

  • This visual effects seem solid, but the choreography feels a little too fakey wire-fu-ish for my taste.

    The Last Airbender Movie Trailer | /Film 2010

  • Memorize ‘em and you’ll not only come off as a pro, but also have the added benefit of taking out all of those fakey dramatic pauses that actors do when trying remember their cues.

    Movie Pin | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • The song sounds like a mix of "We Didn't Start the Fire" and those fakey Juno Comcast commercials (which at last answered the burning question of how to make Kimya Dawson more maddeningly cloying: create a fake Kimya Dawson!).

    fourfour: 2009

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